Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.
I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success... Such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.
War cannot be avoided until the physical cause for its recurrence is removed and this, in the last analysis, is the vast extent of the planet on which we live. Only through annihilation of distance in every respect, as the conveyance of intelligence, transport of passengers and supplies and transmission of energy will conditions be brought about some day, insuring permanency of friendly relations. What we now want is closer contact and better understanding between individuals and communities all over the earth, and the elimination of egoism and pride which is always prone to plunge the world into primeval barbarism and strife... Peace can only come as a natural consequence of universal enlightenment...
The spread of civilisation may be likened to a fire; First, a feeble spark, next a flickering flame, then a mighty blaze, ever increasing in speed and power.
Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine.
The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken up. His work is like that of a planter -- for the future. His duty is to lay foundation of those who are to come and point the way.
Science is but a perversion of itself unless it has as its ultimate goal the betterment of humanity.
All quotes by Nikola Tesla
All photos by Doris
Original Comments:
I love that you made the pictures work as spiritual interludes between thoughts, similar to how Bart uses them, then got to the bottom to turn what seemed to be a paragraph of continuous thought into snippets (separate quotes) yet to finally give the pictures their other meaning and bring it all together.
Very well done!
The atheists should find it quite enlightening.
The abstract surrealism was very appropriate for the illustrations.
God bless.
(Also, he liked pigeons. :-)
About Mr Tesla - he could be quite a revolting man and difficult. On the other hand, he was pretty amazing and sidelined out of history.
Orikinla Osinachi Gosh.
Britmum Thanks!
Badaunt From the biog of him that I read he seems to have been extremely famous in his time even though bit by bit he was robbed or diddled out of his "inventions". Since then, well you know how "we" like to re-write history and I suppose those that had the "power" didn't want their conniving to be known and so better to re-write history and minimise his role.
LOL I forgot about his like of pigeons! Seems there are a few of us around! ;-)
Beautiful pictures Doris. How did you do them?
And the words...
"Only through annihilation of distance in every respect, as the conveyance of intelligence, transport of passengers and supplies and transmission of energy will conditions be brought about some day, insuring permanency of friendly relations. What we now want is closer contact and better understanding between individuals and communities all over the earth, and the elimination of egoism and pride"
This is a decsription of the net. With it's capacity to connect, to elevate, to break barriers and to make us all greater than ourselves and more than the sum of our parts.
As for the photos. We had a nerdy day out yesterday and I just took pics (with a tripod). A room full of tesla coils and plasma flashing all over the place. Very scary. Wonderful. Loud. Exciting and inspiring. All home-made instruments in a potentially lethal hobby. Some of those pics are a portion of a flash up to six foot in length. We just had to stand back and hope for the best! I'm sure though that "they" knew what they were doing. At least I hoped so!
And I too couldn't help thinking the parralel to the internet in that quote.
But Tesla did indeed invent certain pieces of electrical equipment that are responsible for homes carrying alternating current (AC) rather than direct current (DC).
Tesla sounds like a Buddhist. :) I always said he was a smart man. Ha ha ha.
Really cool pictures by the way.
I read somewhere how Tesla managed to create an electrical arc 30ft high, and managed to sink so much electricy in the ground that it blew out the city generator miles away.
Pretty revolutionary he was.
I happened to be refilling the washers on my car a few days ago and noticed the headlamps had a little sticker about danger 25000 volts, so maybe there's a further source for this type of high frequency madness.
Excellent.